Denver Mayor Asks Residents to Step Up for Paris Climate Goalshttp://www.newsservice.org/viewstory.php?ProducerCallSign=CNC&StationID=5173&Fmt=print&shortheader=1&StoryGroup=59377&StoryID=1&l=59377,1,P
Denver Mayor Michael Hancock is challenging residents to roll up their sleeves and help to reduce climate pollution by 80 percent below 2005 levels by 2050 – goals set in Paris in 2015 and rejected by President Donald Trump. The plan would create a glide path to reduce fossil fuel use by increasing conservation and powering electric vehicles with 100 percent renewable energy by 2030, among other moves. Josh Downey, president of the Denver Area Labor Federation, says it’s good to see Denver’s leaders pick up slack at the federal level. “We’re excited that our city and county of Denver are committed to helping us reach the climate goals,” Downey states. “We know this is a tremendous opportunity to create good green jobs while doing the right thing by our environment.”

GOP governor candidate pumps millions into racehttp://www.gjsentinel.com/news/articles/gop-governor-candidate-pumps-millions-into-race
Don’t call Victor Mitchell the Jared Polis of Colorado political campaigning. Instead, the businessman who’s loaned more than $3 million to his bid for the GOP nomination for governor prefers to be known as “the nice Trump.” Like the current president who self-funded much of his primary race, Polis, a multimillionaire Democrat who also is running for governor next year, has long been known as someone not shy about putting money into his own political races. Mitchell has followed that same pattern in his bid to replace term-limited Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat.

Lopez wants GOP nomination for Colorado governorhttp://www.chieftain.com/news/pueblo/lopez-wants-gop-nomination-for-colorado-governor/article_2d8a80b6-c18e-542f-be5d-ea5415fb7c2e.html
He’s the former regional director of the federal Small Business Administration and he says he’ll make helping small businesses his top priority if elected governor next year. Greg Lopez, 53, runs a consulting business in Elizabeth, although he says his six years as head of the regional SBA taught him about the problems facing small business owners. “We have 550,000 small business in Colorado and they are struggling with a myriad of regulations,” he said. “I’d be the advocate for changing that.”